Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge
Videos: Why I Run
Hundreds of runners were part of the 2010 Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge team. View these videos to learn why a handful of those runners made a tremendous personal commitment to training and fundraising for this event.
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Amanda Allen
Amanda is running her first marathon in memory of a close friend who had cancer.
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Michael Buller
Michael is running to honor and support the work Dana-Farber does every day.
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Sarah Chiappetta
Sarah is running in honor of her sister and in memory of a friend's sister.
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Brad Davis
Brad will run in honor of his father.
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Caitlin Grasso
Caitlin runs in "support of a cause that hits home for many of us."
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Nancy Hitchcock
Nancy and her father are running in support of her mother.
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Rich Horgan
Rich is running in his 17th consecutive Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge.
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Eric Kaye
Eric runs in memory of his father, whose birthday fell on the day he shot his video clip.
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Corey Kazak
Corey is running in his first marathon and "can't wait to cross that finish line in April."
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Janel Pudelka
Janel will run in memory of her mother, who was treated at Dana-Farber.
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Jan Ross
Jan will run for the long list of friends she has with cancer.
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Charles (Chuck) Staples
Chuck is running in his first Boston Marathon® – at age 72 – in honor of his wife.
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Jennifer Stone
Jennifer “sees all the good” Dana-Farber’s research does and runs to support it.
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Laura Woodward Liston
Laura is running in her seventh consecutive DFMC in memory of her dad and father-in-law.
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The Dana-Farber Marathon Challenge directs 100 percent of funds raised to the Claudia Adams Barr Program in Innovative Basic Cancer Research at Dana-Farber.
Interested in making your own video? Please contact Dana Finn in the Dana-Farber Communications Department at dana_finn@dfci.harvard.edu or (617) 632-4090.
